#s.odile.loop

[beneathsilverstars]

i started this sketch six months ago but injured-dog loop i could never forget you 💖💕✨

[beneathsilverstars]

My @isat-secretsanta-2024 gift for @pillowspace!! They said they’re fascinated by secret research lab AUs, and, in a case of incredible serendipity, that’s been my favorite trope since I was like 8 years old. So I may have gotten possessed and spent three weeks straight worldbuilding a whole entire thing.

So! This comic is my gift for Pillow, but I’m planning to write a fic set in the same AU eventually, titled Desperate Measures. It will take place in a modern day Vaugarde and focus on Odile, Loop, and Siffrin, alongside other more-or-less-familiar faces. And by “eventually” I mean this is now my highest priority project, but it’s big enough that it may be a couple months till I have anything else to show!

Journal transcript under the cut:

wavelength of 690nm, which means it would activate L cones nearly exclusively. If we're correct in our mapping of wavelength combinations to color terms in historical documents, then this would be considered a shade of "red".

I still don't know if I believe it. It seems fantastical, like I've become a character in a children's story, chosen to leave behind the world of the mundane and enter a realm of magic. Or like this is all a dream, and as soon as I'm about to see the shade my brain will realize it doesn't actually know how to show me something I've never seen before, so it'll put me in front of a full auditorium instead; and then I'll forget how to speak Vaugardian, or realize I'm not wearing any pants, or both, and then I'll wake with a start back in Ka Bue.

But however strange it seems, I can't think of any reason they'd have to lie about it. Why else all the NDAs? Why else contact me? So I must assume that it's true. That after years of trying to solve humanity's loss of color vision — a project that began long before I joined it, and that I expected to continue long past my time — I am about to simply be shown a perceivable color. That's the strangest part, really; that this breakthrough isn't related to the mechanisms of sight, but rather, the thing seen.

14/1/29

I thought perhaps they'd synthesized it somehow. Stumbled upon the correct combination of chemicals by accident. Maybe even invented a new sort of craft.

I didn't expect their source of red to be alive.

[beneathsilverstars]

loop had a bad dream

[beneathsilverstars]

wow guys my copy of the art book just arrived look at this page

[beneathsilverstars]

[beneathsilverstars]

just wanted to thank you for introducing me to the wonderful gift of life that is loopdile because it became one of those ships that mess with my brain from all of the things that surround it and hold it together. maybe it's just the loop and odile fixations that make the whole thing appealing to me but its wonderful regardless. thank you once again silver

you are SO welcome and in fact. i have a welcoming treat for your horsey.

but what's this??

it's no apple.....

it's a crunchy loopdile fresh from thr orchard!

[beneathsilverstars]

i think a lot of my fave things about loopdile come down to odile being a puzzle solver and loop being a fucking puzzle alright

[beneathsilverstars]

sometimes as a treat to me i like to imagine that as siffrin heals and grows they try to stop being so codependent with loop so they can both be well-adjusted individuals, and it works on siffrin’s end, but loop just latches onto odile instead and odile is like shrug. sure.